> aware of it being done for contra dances at all.
>
> For English, several of the dances have email lists for people
> interested in that series and programs are posted after the fact. One
> person - Mary Luckhardt - maintains cumulative spreadsheets of dances
> called for all the series. I also collect that information from the
> posted programs and keep my own lists. This is important in English for
> a couple of reasons: There's a core set of dances that we agreed some
> years back we'd like to have done at least annually at our regular
> dances, so that we can maintain some kind of common repertoire in the
> face of the explosion of new and newly-reconstructed dances. We like to
> visit the dances that are on the Playford Ball program (different each
> year) so that people don't come to them cold, so it helps to know which
> ones have been done. And we don't like to repeat dances from week to
> week unintentionally. In English, a repeat is really a repeat - same
> figures, same tune, only one tune per dance. (And in venues like Palo
> Alto English, with a house band that's mostly the same from session to
> session, that tune is likely to sound very much the same each night it's
> played.)
For our Jamaica Plain Gender Free English dance we've kept a book to record
dances for a long time. SInce 2010 I have been keeping a database up-to-date
and exporting PDF files to our web page - one sorted by dance name and one
sorted by evening.
http:www.lcfd.org/bgfe - links near the bottom of the page
